Courting the undead: Assessing the appeal of zombie movies

by David Furritus

If there ever was a genre that the wife and I truly enjoy it would have to be zombie films. Good, bad, ugly; it doesn't matter to us. Because each zombie movie is generally the same one could say the basic appeal is the ov...read more

by Can Tran

In just about any horror movie, it seems that the use of zombies have been and still is appealing in most aspects of this genre. The one thing that had gotten me interested about zombies was that old computer game by Info...read more

by Beth Laster

When you picture a zombie flick, do you envision (perhaps literally) mindless entertainment? Do lurching, slow-moving protagonists seem to bring nothing more than gore and protracted chase scenes? There is a reason zombi...read more

by Court Moss

I am a zombie movie freak; I can't get enough of them. In fact, when I'm watching one, I'm not even concerned about the storyline. I love the make up, their sluggish gait, and the special fx, or lack there of. A few years ...read more

by John Devera

The zombie movie has a lot of appeal under its decaying flesh. It is less pretentious than its brother genre, the vampire movie. It doesn't have that whole "should we really be trying to kill them" moral conflict of the ...read more

by Richard Leigh

A tale of blood, flesh and walking corpses; What's so appealing about zombie movies? For some years now I have had a strong love for a good zombie movie, zombie movies must be my favorite sort of horror film in fact. Th...read more

by Stephen Ruvkun

Well i happen to be a zombie movie lover. What Hollywood needs to do or at least the movie producers, writers or directors need to go pick up the book called The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks although seems fake and ...read more

by Nick Goundry

The release of 28 Weeks Later..., the unimaginatively-titled sequel to director Danny Boyle's gritty horror 28 Days Later..., is perhaps an overdue response to the original's success. Boyle's original has become, in many w...read more

by ArsGeek

I'm a long time fan of horror movies of a special type that is, the zombie flicks. Those shambling, moaning masses of ex-humanity doing their unspeakable thing. I can pinpoint exactly where my enjoyment in the antics o...read more

by Marcus Brooks

A couple of months back, I watched the 1962 flick, Night of the Living Dead. Of course, the movie was in black and white. It centered around a small, Alabama town overrun by brain-eating zombies. During one scene, a bla...read more

by Anita L. Johnson

I have never quite understood the appeal of zombie movies that come out of Hollywood where Smalltown, USA is put onto the map with the rural area of said town is overrun with zombies! Scaring the townies with their zombie-...read more

by Matthew Christopher

Nothing rounds out a movie more thoroughly than swarms of mindless killers spreading their rabies-like damnation among an unsuspecting populace. Like most well-defined genres, zombie films gain their appeal by utilizing a ...read more

by Todd Daigneault

Zombie movies go to the heart of our fears of death and dying. All human beings have an inherent fear of death, and fight death off strongly with the will to live-this coming from the reptille part of our brains: fight or...read more

by Sarah Fulkes

I have a confession to make before I write this essay: I have only seen one zombie movie all the way through: 'Shawn of the Dead'. A very interesting movie, to say the least. I have seen parts of another- the 60s classic...read more

by Mark Murphy

Rotting flesh and mindless hunger. What exactly attracts so many people to see zombie movies? Lets break down the genre a little to help us understand why we love to watch dead people eat live ones. Unlike most horror m...read more